whatever man. Everyone in France has an ID. It's no big deal, really.
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France has an ID service to pay taxes, and they have a network of possible ID verification systems. Like, you can ID through the tax system, or through the healthcare system. It works fine.
Implementing an API that uses the same to provide age verification is not rocket science.
If you need age verification for a website, say "smedia.fr", then you go there, then it makes you get an age verification token to "franceid.gov.fr", that guy gives you back a token, you send the token to smedia.fr which checks the token with franceid.gov.fr
I don't understand how this is even an issue.
So you could treat Show HN as the same. Like what gets floated on /show is only a small sample of the good stuff in /shownew and be fine with the idea that a lot of the good Show HN just slip through the crack. Which seems to me like the best alternative. Possibly with a /showpool maybe?
You could split Show HN into categories, but you'd have done it by now if you thought it a good idea.
You could also rate Show HN submissions algorithmically trying to push for those projects that have been around longer and that look like more effort has been put into them, but I guess that's kind of hard.
Or you'd have to hire actual people to pre-sort the submissions, and gut all the ones that are not up-to-par. In fact, if there was a human-based approval system for new Show HN, you'd possibly get a lot fewer submissions and more qualitative ones, which in itself would make the work of sorting through them simpler.
> In oligarchy, connections and donations decide.
> It sure look like the US is transitioning from the former to the latter.
The US probably always was like that. Now they just don’t bother hiding it.
Obviously Altman agreed to whatever they asked him and is lying that the DoW is cool about the red lines.
They’re willing to let their brand go to trash for this government contract.
Pretty much every American is standing with Anthropic on this. No one left or right wants mass surveillance and terminators. In fact, no one in the world wants this, except the US military.
But Altman seems so desperate to keep the cash coming he’s ready to do anything.
And nobody in the administration is concerned at all that the model itself might be somewhat against their own views?
If it was so radically woke, wouldn’t the model, as used in fully autonomous weapons, be potentially harmful to ICE officers that the left considers as a threat to the American people?
Wouldn’t the mass surveillance of Americans be biased against the right?
These people are so dumb.
Canning people when you do well is just a way to milk the cow that others raised for you. Plus it shows a blatant lack of imagination and foresight.
I just hope the remaining employees realize they’re in an ejectable seat and stop working for people like that. It’s only a matter of time the founders sell to Bending Spoons for a final paycheck and everyone else is out.
It’s a baked custard (so plenty of eggs) in a pie.
not sure the proportions match.
Anthropic is in favor with developers and generally tech people, while OpenAi / Gemini are more commonly used by regular folks. And Grok, well, you know…
We have yet to see who’s winning in the “creative space”, probably OpenAI.
As these positionings cristallize, each company is likely going to double down on their user’s communities, like Apple did when specifically targeting creative/artsy people, instead of cranking general models that aren’t significantly better at anything.
It’s like there are 2 axes: - cool technique and - cool picture. The second is way more important than the first, which is way painters are still on top of the 2D art world.
Some people can do both though. And i’d say even in these cases the art world tend to dismiss the weird technique as gimmicky.
When a large company wants to create a new plant somewhere, they go shopping for what state/city will give them the most favorable tax. Politicians throw in special exemptions, special tax credits, exclusivity contracts, all sorts of things.
In the US, everything is flexible.
I don't think Apple wouldn't find a cheaper place to manufacture Macs than the US. The US is literally the most expensive place to build.
That, or the Mac Minis are 100% asembled by robots, which is also a possibility.
I love that kids could be left alone in their home and would burn plastic over a gas stove to create models of roller coasters.
I love that Disney would respond to him and not even forget the typo in quadrupuler.
I love that he kept all that and thought of it as a foundational part of his personality (I think probably he was already like that)
This test is interesting because it asks the LLM to break a pattern recognition that's easy to shortcut. "XXX Is 50 Meters Away. Should I Walk or Drive?" is a pattern that 99% of the time will be rightly answered by "walk". And humans are tempted to answer without thinking (as reflected in the 71.5% stat OP is mentioning). This is likely more pronounced for humans that have stronger feelings about the ecology, as emotions tend to shortcut reasoning.
For a long time, LLMs have only been able to think in that "fast" mode, missing obvious trick questions like these. They were mostly pattern recognition machines.
But the more important results here, is not that "oh look! Those LLMs fail at this basic question", no. The more important result is that the latest generation actually doesn't fail.
I think I am not the only one to have noted that there was a giant leap in reasoning capacities between Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.6. As a developper, working with Opus 4.6 has been incredible.
And LLMs aren’t half as good as maintaining code as they are to generate it in the first place. At least yet.
Age verification is not more difficult than a payment system.
I mean, if I can pay on a website without the website to know my credit card number, I should be able to prove my age without the website to know anything about me either.
France has a ID verification system for all its service. You’d think they should be able to provide a hook that lets people prove they’re over the age limit to any third party without the third party knowing. It seems fairly basic.
There is a solution to this.
There are privacy issues on the internet, but I think this ain’t one.
I mean… Spending tax dollars so that foreigners can watch porn without age verification sounds like a bad use of budget.
When you get into the overweight category, sizing becomes a lot more difficult, because then the ratios that are relatively standard for non overweight bodies (like waistline to tallness) completely break down.
So now you don't need just one parameter, but at least two: waist and tallness. And this causes the number of different sizes to explode. So instead of (S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL, XXXXL), you'll need (S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL) waist x (S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL) length. And it becomes unmanageable for brands to cover all the different sizes without having a large amount of waste.
Men trousers and shirts do this, because generally men fashion don't change that fast, so the brands can carry many models for a longer time period.
It was already the case that the hardest part of a project was getting people interested enough that they invest time into trying it.
But now, the fight to get people's attention on new projects is going to get an awful lot harder, as the barrier to entry dropped,and that people who are actually good at marketing can make apps themselves.
Otherwise, as a solo dev, you can leverage AI for both coding faster, and getting better at marketing.